Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.

For a brief window this month, the official clocks that quietly coordinate the Internet’s heartbeat slipped out of sync. After a power outage hit key servers in Colorado, the National Institute of ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon ...

A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...

There's a new record holder for the most accurate clock in the world. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have improved their atomic clock based on a trapped ...

At this point, atomic clocks are old news. They’ve been quietly keeping our world on schedule for decades now, and have been through several iterations with each generation gaining more accuracy. They ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...